Cybersocket Kicks Off Awards Nominations

LOS ANGELES – The voting season officially kicked into high gear this week with nominations for the 7th annual Cybersocket Web Awards honoring the best of the best in 28 different “surfer” award categories and 11 different webmaster categories.

Cybersocket, a gay media company, has officially extended an invitation to adult professionals to cast their votes for their favorite, most innovative gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender websites.

Sites are nominated on the basis of how well they fulfill their advertised missions and for usefulness, design, functionality and uniqueness.

The Cybersocket Web Awards will take place this year on Oct. 5 in Phoenix, Ariz., as part of the kickoff of the Gay Phoenix Forum, hosted by third-party billing company CCBill.

Cybersocket’s mission statement for its yearly awards ceremony is to honor individuals and companies as technological entrepreneurs, important agents of free expression, cultural change and innovators in “queer media and entertainment.”

Only webmasters will be allowed to nominate and vote in the Industry Choice category.

To nominate websites for the Industry's Choice categories, please visit here.

To nominate the best of the web from a Surfer's point of view, please visit here.

All nominations must be received by Aug. 25.

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